Sentence examples for habitual expectation from inspiring English sources

Hume's treatment of the idea of "necessary connection" in causality as deriving from the habitual expectation of the effect upon the observation of its cause is a classic example of projectivism, which some of his successors sought to extend to modality in general, including logical necessity.

Habitual expectation of upside surprises begets blindsides.

But her images are too literal to unsettle habitual expectations deeply.

Called "The River," this elemental inscape exhilaratingly overturns habitual expectations of what goes inside and what goes out.

I know that the mechanism has gone through several changes over the last year, the designers making concessions to the habitual expectations of gamers.

Dispositional optimism and pessimism are habitual styles of expecting good or bad outcomes in life and therefore can be regarded as a dispositional bias in expectation.

In everyday life, open awareness means approaching situations with fresh eyes, letting go of our habitual reactions and our expectations for the future.

Our results are however consistent with other studies where expectation of caffeine in habitual coffee drinkers or of intravenous glucose in healthy volunteers was not associated with increased striatal dopamine levels (Kaasinen et al. 2004; Haltia et al. 2008).

Rather than allowing your mind and emotions to take you on the habitual roller coaster ride of excitement and expectation, leading to the inevitable crash and burn -- one strives to rein in the super high and low feelings and center them in the chest area.

They can help identify and quash the habitual patterns of thinking that keep us unsatisfied, by gaining realistic expectations of others, but also by not expecting material gain to make us any happier, and accepting that everything in life is transient.

Not the habitual shopper.